fastus

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Esperanto

Verb

fastus

  1. conditional of fasti

Ido

Verb

fastus

  1. conditional of fastar

Latin

Etymology 1

From fās.

Pronunciation

Adjective

fāstus (feminine fāsta, neuter fāstum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. allowed (not forbidden)
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative fāstus fāsta fāstum fāstī fāstae fāsta
genitive fāstī fāstae fāstī fāstōrum fāstārum fāstōrum
dative fāstō fāstae fāstō fāstīs
accusative fāstum fāstam fāstum fāstōs fāstās fāsta
ablative fāstō fāstā fāstō fāstīs
vocative fāste fāsta fāstum fāstī fāstae fāsta

Etymology 2

For fāstus diēs, from fāstus above.

Pronunciation

Noun

fāstus m (genitive fāstī); second declension

  1. A day on which courts sat
  2. court register
  3. (in the plural) calendar, almanac
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fāstus fāstī
genitive fāstī fāstōrum
dative fāstō fāstīs
accusative fāstum fāstōs
ablative fāstō fāstīs
vocative fāste fāstī
Descendants
  • → Italian: fasto

Etymology 3

Uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstus, from *bʰers- (“tip”). See also fastīgium.

Pronunciation

Noun

fāstus m (genitive fāstūs); fourth declension

  2. arrogance, pride, haughtiness; scornful contempt or disdain of others
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.419:
      fāstus inest pulchrīs, sequiturque superbia fōrmam:
      Cold disdain is innate in the fair, and haughtiness accompanies beauty.
      1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 28.
  3. prudery, primness
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fāstus fāstūs
genitive fāstūs fāstuum
dative fāstuī fāstibus
accusative fāstum fāstūs
ablative fāstū fāstibus
vocative fāstus fāstūs
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • “fastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "fastus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fastus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the calender (list of fasts and festivals): fasti
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 110
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